“Social technology, in all of its varying forms, seems similar to alcohol in a way. Both can be used as an effective lubricant for the socially skittish, but when used in excess, can also damage our ability to hold a coherent conversation without their aid.”— Rachel Siemens, manrepeller.com
“Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Now try not to be overwhelmed by all this technology. It looks complicated, but the men who designed it made it simple enough for a woman to use.”— Matthew Weiner, Joan Holloway, Christina Hendricks, imdb.com
“We have found that players like communicating via their digital devices. So with the help of our technology partner, we came up with an app that allows us to send short clips of analysis to individual players or groups of players from different parts of the team. Every player gets a couple of exampl…”— Oliver Bierhoff, espn.com
“Those who cannot adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.”— Jim Rogers, amazon.com
“As he triumphantly rolls out Facebook 2.0, the real question is just how sincere Zuckerberg is in his promises to make things better.”— Maya Kosoff, vanityfair.com
“Our brains are computers, are dictionaries, are books. They hold information, but you can only hold so much information. Even if you think you can hold the world, you can only hold so much!”— Giancarlo Esposito, vulture.com
“Technology alone is not enough. It's technology married with the liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields the results that makes our hearts sing.”— Steve Jobs, newyorker.com
“Every day, we check our phones an average of 47 times–every 19 minutes of our waking lives–and spend roughly five hours total peering at their silvery glow. There’s no good consensus about what all this screen time means for children’s brains, adolescents’ moods or the future of our democratic insti…”— Haley Sweetland Edwards, time.com
“As it’s the darling du jour of the Silicon Valley set, Ehrenreich asks us to consider how suspect it is that that the same people who brought us the devices that stress us out are also peddling $10 a month guided meditations to counterbalance it.”— Deanna Pai, thecut.com
“With technology constantly growing and improving, it's easy to get distracted. Put your phone on silent or vibrate and start making a habit of not looking at it until you've completed the amount of time you've set aside for a particular assignment.”— Victoria Shaw, teenvogue.com
“If online financial planning, stock picking and Bitcoin trading are in gold rush mode, Perret and Hockey have the surefire business: the shovels and pans.”— Alex Konrad, forbes.com
“That these episodic series encourage appointment viewing can make them safer bets for brands versus one-off branded Stories.”— Tim Peterson, digiday.com
“Given the performance exhibited by the machine in this work and its capacity for expansion, we are confident in its ability to serve as a platform for the proposed speech prosthetic device.”— David Moses, dailymail.co.uk
“Here's what people really want from tech: Instagram – chronological timeline Spotify – let us block artists Amazon – don’t create an inescapable surveillance panopticon Facebook – don't end democracy Snap – more filters.”— Tiffany C. Li, twitter.com
“Innovation is a very strange thing in general, because it’s so hard to know what to learn about it or how to study it. Every moment in the history of business, in the history of technology, happens only once. And so there’s no formula.”— Peter Thiel, washingtonpost.com
“But just because you don't qualify for sainthood doesn't mean you can't form deep human connections -- or that your connections can't make a difference in the world. That's where technology comes in. If you make the moral choice to connect deeply to others, then your computer, your phone, and your t…”— Melinda Gates, today.duke.edu
“The people who say technology has disconnected you from others are wrong. So are the people who say technology automatically connects you to others. Technology is just a tool. It's a powerful tool, but it's just a tool. Deep human connection is very different. It's not a tool. It's not a means to an…”— Melinda Gates, today.duke.edu
“You're all so connected...but you've never been so alone.”— Jeremy Carver, Sera Gamble, Crocotta, imdb.com
“I came to believe that the nastiness of the internet was not a function of a technology or various things that have gone wrong, but the function of one particularly nasty media company led by a particularly sociopathic individual and that if I defeated Gawker, it would actually change the media land…”— Peter Thiel, amazon.com